Mark Kelly, the husband of the former congresswoman, said in a statement to the court:

Gabby would trade her own life to bring back any one of those you savagely murdered on that day.

Mr. Loughner, by making death and producing tragedy, you sought to extinguish the beauty of life. To diminish potential. To strain love. And to cancel ideas. You tried to create for all of us a world as dark and evil as your own.